physician

[Phy*si·cian]

A physician is a doctor. If you wake up and your eyes are red, your skin is yellow, and your tongue is swollen, find a physician, soon!

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A person skilled in physic, or the art of healing; one duty authorized to prescribe remedies for, and treat, diseases; a doctor of medicine.

Noun
a licensed medical practitioner; "I felt so bad I went to see my doctor"


n.
A person skilled in physic, or the art of healing; one duty authorized to prescribe remedies for, and treat, diseases; a doctor of medicine.

n.
Hence, figuratively, one who ministers to moral diseases; as, a physician of the soul.


Physician

Phy*si"cian , n. [OE. fisician, fisicien, OF. physucien, a physician, in F., a natural philosopher, an experimentalist in physics. See Physic.] 1. A person skilled in physic, or the art of healing; one duty authorized to prescribe remedies for, and treat, diseases; a doctor of medicine. 2. Hence, figuratively, one who ministers to moral diseases; as, a physician of the soul.

A person skilled in physic, or the art of healing; one duty authorized to prescribe remedies for, and treat, diseases; a doctor of medicine.

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Usage Examples

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.

The good physician treats the disease the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

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Other Usage Examples

A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.

The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.

As a physician and as a pilot, I think it lets me be a pretty good translator having one foot in the medical world and one foot in the flying world. Sometimes when the medical guys come in and speak medical stuff to the pilots, the pilots really don't know what they're saying.

A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel.

It's such a long mission and we get to spend so much time in space... we're doing such exciting research. And I don't want to overemphasize the life science research, but as a physician the life science research that we're doing is extremely exciting.

The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.

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